I'm not sure if this is the correct part of the forum to post this, but here goes- I invite the admins to move it if necessary.
Anyway, over the last several years, I've moved a lot, and have found it difficult to maintain consistent record keeping in any one place. I'm not one of these old guys with a reloading log that has been sitting on the bench in the same place for the last 30 years. I like my computer, and my iPhone and all that other stuff. So, today, I started off building an Excel spreadsheet to log all of my reloading and casting data. I'm no Excel wiz, and what I really wanted was an automated form to fill out for any given loading session. So, I built the spreadsheet, and then got completely hung up on the form that would be connected to it.
Back to the drawing board: Next, I decided to really join the 21st century, and use Google Docs. I built myself a form so that I can enter stuff in from my computer, or my phone, whichever device I have nearby. This automatically generates a spreadsheet to store all responses, so that it's fairly easy to look at all of the collected data, or a portion of it (say, I just want to examine the history of my .44SPL loads, or everything I've done with a given bullet... you get the idea).
I'm not exactly the world's most experienced reloader, so I'm just using this log for my own purposes, but I'm passing this info on, because I'm sure that some of you are old friends with similar experience and choose to share your data.
With this kind of a record keeping setup, I can control who has access to my data. For me, it's just me, but it would be just as easy to share the form, and the database it generates with any number of friends. That way, one person in Seattle could easily, and in real time, share loading or casting data with his good buddy in Miami.
If this is old news to people, then I apologize, but the idea hit me like a brainstorm today, and it ended up being rather easy to develop this system, so I thought I would share.